PAGE FOUR
THE MICHIGAN DAiL,
SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1924
and sneak up to steal our wife and
B ooks tapestries and gold drinking ces."
Since I have fallen to quoting I
SO BIG, By Edna Ferber. Doubleday, feel I must include that pungent com-
Page, & Co. 1923. mnentary on the University, Miss Fer-
When Edna Ferber wrote about her described two classes in the in-
petticoat salesmanship she was amus -stitutions, the Classifieds and the Un-
ing and well liked. Beside her place classifieds. "The Classifieds and the
in periodical fiction, her years as a Unclassifieds rarely mixed. Not age
short story writer netted her some- alone, but purpose separated them.
thing else-a certain facility of tech- The Classifieds were, for the most
nique and a sure sense of the popu- part slim young lads with caps and
Iar pulse; at the propitious moment pipes and sweaters, their talk of foot-
she came along with "The Girls" and ball, baseball, girls; slim young girls.
established herself as a novelist. It ' . ".. with pleated skirts that switchedI
has been interesting to watch Edna delightfully as they strolled across the
Ferber grow and in her latest book, campus arm in arms, their talk of foot-
"So Big," one feels any optimistic ball games, fudge, clothes, oys. They
earlier prediction justified. She is cut classes when ever possible. The
still the thoughtful yet sprightly ob- Stulent Body. Midwest i turned them
server, large with sympathy and sure out by the hundred--alimost by the
in perception. . . . iire than that link, one might say, as Aughwmp l's
we find in this novel a breadtll and sausage fatorituSrnSrd'i'i1iitt
dept"h7,h 1a or l a= jacket an plump sap caes, cah on xcl ie
nouncements call "truly American." the one behind and the'on'Sicci i iS
'here are s oits'i o i tic bak siwl if
Miss Ferber's e'lyo m n ,Sri ts i, ISaid o-B ssia" ntraed to
the cheap fi'tionnday -.s-ettnthem-
selves: the imtprobabl±e i. ade 1 pl us- had bheen phyiclly posseible they
ibi stark relity is aplogize' for. Iiold hmv t.it l iices at
It is as though she forgets that 0:1, listened to two lectures, pre-
lt'er r si'iar nov: a miatire tant iareSl two paper's simtultaneosly. .
Mt of them had worked ten years,
ii ..,1? .1 " ifosci'stire se is
ti iii , .g .ii'the inppye ire is.' bfft n iifor this deferred schooling.. .
Sel n 'sPeake is forceds by sididien -sDorothy 'anders.
Poverty into teaching school in the
country-ligh Prairie, drab, heavy, PROHIBITION
hopeless, a community of Dutch truck (Continued from Page Two)
farmers, servitors to Chicago's maw, iar mnlieiuml be contemplates using,
which makes of Gopher Prairie an so that he can decide what type of
enviable place. Here Selina,i a crec- appeal and argument will be most ef-
ture incredibly fine and superior to fective. To one class of people his
circumstances, falls in love with and appeal might be Quality while to an
marries Pervus De Jongi, astupidl other Low Price; to one class it might
blond giant. The general muddiness be Beauty and to another Utility. The
settles about her. Pervus dies and effective advertiser classifies and mar-
the story is that of Selina, against shals his arguments of greatest ap-
whose kind "life has no weapxns," ipeal to the group of readers he liap-
left with her baby "so big", ahd the pens to be addressing. On all oc-
run down De Jong farm. Endowed asions, and especially in deionstrat-
with high courage and a belief in ing the evils of liquor and the bene-
beauty she finds prosperity in High ficent results of Prohibition, the Pro-
Prairie and a place in the world for hibitionists ought to do likewise. Nots
her son. The last part of the book is as a rule to the vast undifferenial
concerned with Dick, outgrown his, General Public but rather to the
nickname, now, but it never loses igroups composing it ought the Proi-
track of the transcending little figure bitionist direct his arguments. A
on the De Jong farm, whose clear spocimen grouping is (a) Men, Wo-
conception of the spirit of things en- men; with these subdivided into (a)
tirely penerates and illuniines the Employers Employees (b) Married,
empty shell which Dick's successful Single. The possible groupings are
career had tols him was life. numerous and often overlapping, there
There are other characters in the are no tight boundaries; yet as a gen-
story. . . types definitely drawn with 'eral rule there are certain types of
that irecision and consistency which argument which will have the great-
sems so native to Edna Ferber. But est appeal to a certain group, and it
most noteworthy are her keen darts is to this group that these arguments
of irony, scarce bitter enough for ought to be consistently directed.
satire, none the less amusing because Common-sense demands that one
well-aimed. She talks with whole- sends one's appeals where they will
some relish of Chicago's pork aria- prove the most effective.
tocracy riding to bounds in pink jae- Plenty of material Is already avail-
kets while "the fox,"-a worried and able for developing our third line of
somewhat dejected-looking anial- advertising, which is, the arousing of
had been shipped in a crate from the the public to the prime necessity of
south and on being released had a way the enforcement of all law (which
of sitting sociably in an Illinois corn would of course include the Prohibi-
field instead of leaping fleetly to cover, tion laws). The New Republic (a
At the finish you had a feeling of magazine, incidentally, opposed to
guilt, as though you had killed a cock- Prohibition) in its issue of Sept. 13,
roach. 1922 admits that "When a law is not
She criticizes what is elegant and enforced, . . . to that extent govern-
fashionable in Chicago architecture, ment is overthrown." President Hard-
with genuine amiabilty. "Those ing in An Appeal to Halt Law-Break-
French and Italan gimeracky things ing (Literary Digest, March 15, 1922)
they-they're incongruous. It's as ' says, "If people who are known as
if Abraham Lincoln were to appear leaders, as directing influences, as
suddenly in pink satin knee breeches thoroughly respected and respectable
and buckled shoes, and lace ruffles members of society shall in their re-
at his wrists... . Those Italian vil- spective communities become known
las and French Chateaux In north Chi- for their defiance of some part of the
cago suburbs are a good deal like code of law, then they need not be as-
a lace evening gown in thle Arizona tonished If presently they find their
desert. It wouldn't keep you cool in exanpe followed by others, with the
the daytime, and it wouldn't be warm result that presently 'the law in gen-
enough at night. I suppose a native eral comes to be looked upon as a
architecture is evolved from building set of irksome and unreasonable re-
for the local climate and the needs of straints upon the liberty of the indi-
the community, keeping beauty in vidual."
mind as you go. We don't need turrets It will not prove so very difficult to
and towers any more than we need demonstrate the necessity of law en-
draw-bridges and moats. It's alright forcement if government is to exist;
to keep them, I suppose, where they and in this phase of their propaganda
grew up, in a country where the feu- and advertising Prohibitionists will
dal system meant that any day your find themselves aided by a large num-
next door neighbor might take it into ber of citizens, many of whom are op-
his head to call his gang around him (Continued on Page Five)
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